Attributed to Jonathan Richardson

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1665-1745

Portrait of a Lady (Mary Hervey?)

Graphite on vellum. Framing line in graphite.

5 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (133 x 117 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

2004.49:31

Notes:

Fol. 13, no. 31 in the Bull Album.
Sheet with decorative border on which drawing is mounted has been cut out and mounted to album leaf covering another decorative border .
Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, Sr. in Fairfax Murray. Sitter identified in Fairfax Murray as "Mary, daughter of Brigadier Colonel Nicholas Le Pell. Married John Lord Hervey, Oct. 25th, 1720."

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in graphite: [illegible] (effaced); overwritten in pen and black ink: Lady Hervey.; at lower center in graphite: [illegible] (effaced); on verso at center in graphite: Lady Hervey / Miss Lapelle.; within decorative border at lower center in pen and black ink: MARY, Daughter of General Nicholas Le Pell, married to JOHN, Lord / Hervey. Oct.25.1720. drawn from the life by J: Richardson.; on album leaf beneath drawing in graphite: 5685 / i/gh/.; beyond decorative border at center right: Richardson; at upper left: x 19; at upper right: 31. Collector's mark of Jonathan Richardson Sr. inscribed at lower right in graphite, R, overwritten in pen and black ink.

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (Lugt 2183); Richard Bull, Ongar, Essex (Lugt 314 and Lugt S. 314); Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca. 1840-ca. 1892), London and Paris; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9-13 December 1889, lot 1146; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Bull, Richard, 1725-1806, former owner.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt, 1840-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 20, repr.

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